antholite

English

Etymology

From antho- +‎ -lite.

Noun

antholite (plural antholites)

(paleontology) A fossil plant, like a petrified flower.
- 1858, Charles Lyell, “Supplement to the Fifth Edition of a Manual of Elementary Geology”, in The British Review, volume 28:
  He considers this Antholite from the coal to be "the spike of a very highly organised flowering plant in full flower,", p. 20.
- 1872 February, William Carruthers, “Notes on some Fossil Plants”, in Geological Magazine, volume 9, page 53:
  Göppert , in his Permian Flora , figures an Antholite (pl. xxi., fig. 1-3), which he considers to be teh inflorescence of Nöggerathia, a genus placed by him among the monocotyledons; while Ettingshausen, on the other hand, believes teh forms he found in the Coal-Measures at Stradonitz to be the fruits of Calamites ("Steinkohlenflora Stradonitz," pl. v. fig. 1-3).
- 1948, Clark Ashton Smith ·, Genius Loci, and Other Tales, page 65:
  It is not, as you have perhaps surmised, a work of sculpture, but it is an antholite, or fossil blossom, brought, with others of the same kind, from the world to which I am native.
A fibrous form of amphibole.
- 1878, Joseph Henry Collins, Mineralogy - Volume 2, page 188:
  Antholite is fibrous or asbestiform, grey to brown; […] Cummingtonite is much like antholite, gey to brown; fibrous;
- 1880, Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 - Volume 3, page 559:
  In thin section, the radiated variety of amphibole, antholite ( possibly true anthophyllite ) , predominates in closely matted groups, made up of colorless to brownish ( ochreous ) fibres, which polarize strongly between the crossed nicols.
- 1894, A. P. Coleman, “Antholite from Elzivir, Ontario”, in The American Journal of Science, volume 148, page 272:
  It seems to correspond most nearly in chemical composition to some of the fibrous forms of monoclinic amphibole, e.g. antholite or kuppferite.
- 1915, Memoir - Issue 74, page 22:
  Antholite is found in irregular bundles of strong fibres associated with altered enstatite, calcite, dolomite etc

Anagrams

antihotel